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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
David Eagleman
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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.
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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is out there in the same way that a movie camera would.
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.
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The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.
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A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
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Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.
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If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
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Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
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If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
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